Going back to BT From NTL help!

knuckledragger

pinkonion,
If your mother's on Telewest, why bother changing to BT? Just use 1899. 3p per call. Use an Orchid V4 dialler box to make things simpler for her if necessary.

mechy

deefadog wrote:

Ok, going back to BT, only on option one, using talk talk & 1899 etc

My question is, for people that have moved back from NTL to BT, can the BT line be plumed straight into the NTL telephone line?

As i have the NTL telephone boxes in alot of rooms and don't want to re-route the cables again!

Thanks for any advice

Am with NTL , but my old BT line is dangling next to the NTHell box. Opps sorry slip of the keys.

deefadog

Thanks Marty.L !

Is it nessasery for the engineer to come out! I mean i could reconnect the BT line myself (or a friend who usaed to work for BT could) to the ntl box?

And it would mean BT just turning it back on?

Thanks

April2

If BT are going to reconnect you free of charge (which it sounds like they should) why take the chance? Let them come and fit their master socket (so you're covered in the unlikely that NTL want to recover theirs).

Then your friend can do whatever is necessary with the extension wiring later (if the BT engineer hasn't done so).

youreds

deefadog wrote:

Thanks Marty.L !

Is it nessasery for the engineer to come out! I mean i could reconnect the BT line myself (or a friend who usaed to work for BT could) to the ntl box?

It is, the BT engineer has to check the line is OK, he then does some jiggery-pokery on his yellow device that looks a bit like a phone, this instructs NTL to port the number over to BT. The BT man said this can take from 2 minutes to 2 hours to happen. During this period, both lines are active, but the BT one only does outgoing calls. After about 10 minutes my new BT line gave a single ring & was active for incoming calls & the NTL line was dead. The BT engineer wasn't in the house for more than 10 minutes, all in all a painless process.

Youreds!

deefadog

Yeah good point,

The problem i have is that all i have from BT is the line coming to the house and just sitting in the outside guttering! I was a bit unsure weather they would charge for routing it through the house! And also i would like it to be routed through the attic and down into the living room via a telephone extension i buried in the wall (as i live in a bungalow)

Otherwise the wire would have to dangle down the froint of the house by the front door, i don't want that!

I guess the best thing for me to do is to bring the cable into the attic and drop it into the hallway cuboard and connect the bt box up, then i could run the extions my self later!

Anyone see a problem with this?

Cheers